LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE
A Dinghy (1)
Just in time THE STATION HONORARY TREASURER of Stranraer saw a capsized dinghy, her crew in the water, some 300 yards from the shore at 1855 on Wednesday, September 1. He immediately drove to the boathouse where the honorary secretary and...
Dayspring
FRASERBURGH.—On the 15th August about two hundred of the fishing-boats put to sea, but as weather was threatening the remaining six hundred boats did not venture out. Towards night the wind increased until it attained the force of a gale,...
Carency
Wick, Caithness-shire.—At 12.40 early on the morning of the 29th of June, 1957, the coastguard telephoned that a trawler was ashore on the north side of Noss Head. At one o'clock the life-boat City of Edinburgh was launched in a slight...
Yarmouth
Great Yarmouth and Gorleston, Norfolk.
—On the 4th of December, 1950, the Belgian trawler Yarmouth, bound for Ostend with white fish and carrying acrew of eleven, ran aground on the Scroby Sands. There she wirelessed for...
Best Efforts By F R Davies
HOW WOULD YOU react when confronted with three seven-year-old boys who had seen, say, a model you had built 15 years ago, and who wanted to build their own? Would you tell them that, because of inflation, it would cost three times as much...
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R.A.F.High-Speed Launch No. 124
JANUARY 3RD. - HARTLEPOOL, DURHAM.
At 9.10 P.M. the naval officer in charge telephoned that R.A.F. high-speed launch No. 124 was somewhere off Hartlepool.
Her compass had gone wrong and she could not...
Barendrecht
JANUARY 16TH. - KIRKCUDBRIGHT. At 11.15 on the night of the 15th of January the Isle of Whithorn coastguard reported a vessel ashore at Steenhead. She was the Dutch tanker Barendrecht, a vessel of several thousand tons, bound for the Clyde....
None (8)
At 11.40 a.m. on iyth March, 1967, the the local nurse told the honorary secretary that a man who was seriously ill needed to be taken to hospital on the mainland.
The man was embarked and the life-boat Mabel Marion...
An Aluminium Tub
Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin - At 8.30 p.m. on 20th April, 1968, the Dun Laoghaire lighthouse keeper told the honorary secretary that a man who had set out for Holyheadin an aluminium tub was in difficulties one cable east of the east pier...
Fishing Cobles
Filey, Yorkshire.—At 7.15 on the morning of the 14th of November, 1956, when the weather was deteriorating, the coastguard rang up and asked for the life-boat to escort eight local fishing cobles to harbour. The life-boat Isa and Penryn...